HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080623380
Bassin de Mississippi River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 5 administrative regions : Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, Mississippi
Sub-basin area
352,4km²
Upstream area
2 345 146km²
Discharge
14 733,51m³/s
Mean elev.
97m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mayfield Creek1114 km²
- Bassin de Mississippi River25 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 160.9 km²45.6% of basin
- 92.1 km²26.1% of basin
- 80.7 km²22.9% of basin
- Fulton18.6 km²5.3% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Management Area
16.72 km² overlap
Three Ponds
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
1.99 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Carlisle, KY
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
1.63 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.50 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
1.11 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.86 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.81 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.50 km² overlap
Dorena
IUCN VAccess
0.06 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Moore (Jos Hunter)
IUCN VAccess
0.03 km² overlap
State Conservation Area or Park
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
619 distinct species · 9 805 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Mississippi River : 31 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
14,4°C
Annual rain
1 260mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
629mm/an
PET
1 213mm
AET
935mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
36cm
Forest
21%
Crops
74%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)